The magical people at Dylan's Book Bus asked me along to Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff to read from The Offline Project. None other than my musical hero Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animal and lots of other projects fame) listened in and bought the book. He's one of the greatest ever Welshmen. This makes my heart very big.

A few days ago (Friday 18th May), THE OFFLINE PROJECT was released. It's a novel about the internet, going off-grid, modern love, family, ambition, society and I hope you like it. You can buy it here and here.

The following day, we had the launch party at the Transport Club in Cardiff. The incredible Adwaith, Simon Love and The Old Romantics and John Mouse provided musical accompaniment. Big love all round.

This beautiful thing was illustrated by the very talented Max Low. Here's something I said about it:

“The book takes its name from a community which the protagonist, Gerard, joins in its second half. His story takes places in two very different locations: Cardiff, the growing capital city of Wales, and an unidentified Danish woodland, with two different themes: online and offline. The writing also happened across those two countries, written on my phone in my home of Cardiff, and in Moleskine notebooks in a succession of minimalist cafes across Copenhagen. Rewind a few generations and my great-grandfather took a similar trip in reverse, stowing away from an archipelago in the Baltic Sea called the Åland Islands- a Swedish-speaking autonomous part of Finland- and disembarking in Cardiff, then one of the world’s busiest ports and home to the multicultural Tiger Bay, where he opened a hostel for Scandinavian seaman. Max’s cover illustration, serene and just a little bit sinister, feels like the perfect representation of the place Gerard finds himself. But I’ll let readers decide that for themselves.”